In 2009 and 2010, Frank Piasecki Poulsen travelled to the
Democratic Republic of Congo to investigate a dark, bloody side to
the mobile phone industry. The Danish filmmaker alleges that some
of the minerals used in electronic devices, including phones, are
being bought from mines run by military groups. And the profits are
being used to finance the long-running and bloody civil war in the
country. We spoke to Poulsen, Nokia and US charity and experts in
this field, the Enough Project, to investigate the story behind
Poulsen's new film, Blood In The
Mobile.

We also battle iOS 5's Siri and Android's Iris voice command
systems to see which gives the most useful (or fun) answers to a
series of real-world questions. Plus we've got the latest and
greatest Wired news to discuss. It's a packed show this week to say
the least.

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Geoengineering is the same as anthropromorphic global warming except its willfully deliberate instead of accidentally deliberate. We don't know what will happen, its probably irrreversible, it affects everything on earth and we only get one chance.